Pay-for-performance (P4P) pricing schemes such as pay-per-click and pay-per-action have grown in popularity in Internet advertising. Meanwhile, the traditional pay-per-impression (PPI) scheme persists, and several advertising publishers have started to offer a hybrid mix of PPI and P4P schemes....

Apart from reducing buyer search costs, web-based commerce has also enabled the use ofintelligent agent technologies that reduce seller search costs by targeting buyers, customizing,and pricing products in real-time. Our model of an electronic market with customizable productsanalyzes the...

This paper develops and analyzes a model of competition between platforms in an industry with indirect network effects, with a specific focus on complementary product exclusivity. The objective is to understand the conditions under which complement exclusivity can be observed and analyze the...